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==Language and alphabet== For most of [[Superman]]'s published history, Kryptonian writing was represented by random, alien-looking squiggles. In the 1970s, [[E. Nelson Bridwell]] attempted to rationalize the squiggles into a 118-letter alphabet called Kryptonese. This standardized alphabet was then used by [[DC Comics]] until [[John Byrne (comics)|John Byrne]]'s [[The Man of Steel (comics)|1986 "reboot"]] of the Superman universe.<ref>Turniansky, Al. "The Kryptonese Alphabet: A Real-World Historical Tale", in Eury, Michael. ''The Krypton Companion'' (TwoMorrows Publishing, 2006), p. 32.</ref> In 2000, DC introduced a transliteration alphabet for the written language, which was renamed Kryptonian.
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